Striking AI pilots reject Dharmadhikari report

New Delhi: Salaries of Air India pilots will depend on which type of aircraft they fly — narrow-bodied or wide-bodied — and not on whether they belong to erstwhile Air India or Indian Airlines, if the suggestions of the Justice Dharmadikari Committee report, made public by minister of civil aviation Ajit Singh on Friday, are accepted.
The report also links payment of pilots to the number of hours they fly and to a fixed allowance.
The union of the 450 striking pilots, the Indian Pilots Guild, or IPG, rejected the suggestions and called the Dharmadhikari report biased and prejudiced. “The report is tailor made to suit the interests of employees of erstwhile Indian Airlines. It reinforces the bias and prejudice that the management harbours against the employees of erstwhile Air India vis- a-vis erstwhile Indian Airlines,” an IPG spokesperson said. The pilots of erstwhile Air India are on strike, and have opposed the training of Indian Airlines pilots on Dreamliner aircraft, which are wide-bodied.
The report was given in January this year. The civil aviation ministry has decided to have a four-member Implementation-cum-Anomaly Committee on the Dharmadhikari recommendations.
02/06/12 Business Standard

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